Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 4

• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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• As long as you live, learn how to live.

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  Long

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• Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

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  Life, Speech, Feels

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• No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

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  Freedom, Men, Flesh

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", XCII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 294-296), 1922.

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• It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

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  Stars, Latin, History

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• It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.

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  Errors, Too Late, Way

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• Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

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  Drinking, Alcohol, Liquor Funny

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

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  Philosophy, Fall, Arrows

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• There exists no more difficult art than living.

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  Art, Difficult

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• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

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  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• Life without the courage to die is slavery.

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  Slavery, Dies

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• The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

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  Mind, Genius, Rust

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• No man ever became wise by chance.

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  Wise, Men, Chance

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• A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

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  Firsts, Steps, Action

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• We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

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  Air, Deep Breathing, Spirit

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• No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

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  Character, Long, Lapses

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• It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

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  Positivity, Mind, Stoicism

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• A good mind possesses a kingdom.

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  Wisdom, Intelligence, Mind

  "Thyestes", Act II. 380 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 513-516), 1922.

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• No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.

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  Happy Life, Reflection, Roots

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• The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

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  Birthday, Tattoo, Death

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

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  Greatness, Men, Temptation

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• The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.

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  Consistency, Deeds

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• The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

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  Life, Happiness, Future

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• If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.

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  Evil, Companion, Propensity

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius)". Book by Seneca the Younger (Letter CIV), circa 65 AD.

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